EPA soliciting grant applications from large public water utilities

August 26, 2002 -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as of July 29 is soliciting grant applications from privately-owned community drinking water utilities that regularly serve 100,000 or more people.

The grants may be used to develop a vulnerability assessment, emergency response plans, security enhancement plans and designs, or a combination of these efforts.

EPA will award up to $115,000 to each eligible utility system.

The request for applications is available online (as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file) at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/security/rfa_private_grants.pdf.